Democrats will destroy anything they can't control.
Mob Rule.
A better solution would be to expel California from the Union.
This POS is still alive? I thought he was dead.
To address Mr. Dingel the response is “Hell NO”
Every point he made was completely in the mindset of total mob rule. The “excesses of democracy” I believe were the words used in civics class to describe the majority running roughshod over the minority. Nothing in Mr Dingel’s prose speaks to the rights of any minority.
A little thought experiment:
Lets’ expropriate white people’s property.
Let’s execute the Jews
Let’s throw open the borders to anyone who wants to come here.
Let’s deport all blacks back to Africa
Let’s execute all Blacks.
And on, and on, and on. If you can get a majority to vote for it then it’s OK to do...right, Mr. Dingel?
For 59 years this guy lived off of the taxes paid by American citizens, never had to have a real job, and now has a pension for life - but he wants to change the system so that those who don’t agree with him aren’t represented. The kind of change we need isn’t abolishing the Senate, it’s extremely strict term limits so that people like him can never become career politicians.
We could do away with the House, too .. and Supreme Court. Just appoint a Czar to Dingell’s liking who can serve for life. It’s all good.
Is he proposing an amendment to the constitution? A Constitutional convention?
Then how does he plan to do this?
Again, it is typical of the misunderstanding of “a nation” that the Left employs to denigrate the institutions that try to help keep us a federal constitutional republic.
Their tool is to employ various forms of some majority of the national “popular vote” as a stand in for “the nation”. It is not and never can be a stand in for the nation.
A nation is not merely an accounting of the numbers of people within it.
A nation is the villages, towns, cities, counties and states within it - the places people live and have most of their life cast within - not merely it’s “national” popular vote.
Both the electoral college and the senate help to hold the nation together, help prevent it from splitting apart, by preventing clear majorities of the places in the country from being overwhelmed by a tyranny of any mere majority “popular vote”.
It is an error manufactured by the left, out of its hatred for the nation that we are, that it bemoans the inability to impose mass universal agreement on any and every possible policy, nationwide, with states, and even their counties, cities, towns and villages NOT beholden to rules from Washington D.C. for everything.
When they bemoan that not enough can be accomplished, as a nation, what they really mean is not enough of their agenda. For the sheeple though, using the Left’s handmaiden, the media, that issue is always written as if the things the Left cannot get done are necessities the nation cannot do without.
It’s all a lie.
Dingall: the Constitution is just an 18th century political deal.
Dingall must be on his way out. One last volley for Camrad Stalin...
Dingell wants war. If this idea were to take hold and be pursued, it would mean war, as the smaller States would need to protect themselves from the larger, more populous States.
John “President Snow” Dingell wants the US to be like the Hunger Games, with the bigger states/cities ruling over smaller/rural areas.